Through Love to Light: A Selection of Songs of Good Courage

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Joseph Knight Company, 1896 - 211 pagina's
 

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Pagina 44 - thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Pagina 154 - hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. NO COWARD SOUL. NO coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see heaven's glories shine, And faith shines
Pagina 126 - and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less. Far off thou art, but ever nigh ; I have thee still, and I rejoice; I prosper, circled by thy voice; I shall not lose thee, though I die.
Pagina 153 - INTEGER VITAE. THE man of life upright, Whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds, Or thoughts of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, Nor sorrows discontent, — That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence. He only can behold With
Pagina 126 - THY voice is on the rolling air; I hear thee where the waters run; Thou standest in the rising sun, And in the setting thou art fair. What art thou, then? I cannot guess; But though I seem in
Pagina 24 - HEROISM. RUBY wine is drunk by knaves, Sugar spends to fatten slaves, Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons ; Thunder-clouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotted round his head. The hero is not fed on sweets : Daily his own heart he eats ; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
Pagina 2 - three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as an infant's breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, — Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. THE
Pagina 158 - David to thy distillage went, Keats and Gotama excellent, Omar Khayyam, and Chaucer bright, And Shakspere for a king-delight. Then, Time, let not a drop be spilt: Hand me the cup whene'er thou wilt. 'T is thy rich stirrup-cup to me; I '11 drink it down right smilingly. SIDNEY LANIER. HOPE EVERMORE AND BELIEVE. ^ From "Amours de Voyage,
Pagina 146 - And so, from a brown homestead where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianas, Waved over by the woods of Rippovvams, And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford sent up to the councils of the State Wisdom and grace in Abraham Davenport.
Pagina 140 - LOVE'S NOBILITY. FOR this is Love's nobility: Not to scatter bread and gold, Goods and raiment, bought and sold; But to hold fast our simple sense, And speak the speech of innocence, And with hand and body and blood To make our bosom counsel good. For he that feeds men serveth few ; He serves all who dares be true. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

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